This Period Home Hides a "Monastic Sense of Serenity" Behind Its Doors — But You'd Never Guess at First Glance

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This five-bedroom Edwardian house in southwest London has not had your standard architectural refit. It’s not been given a side return infill, nor has a glass box been added onto the back.

But then McLaren Excell is not your standard residential architectural firm — instead, it makes single-storey country farmhouses out of golden ironstone or fortress-like city homes clad in rich, grey Danish Petersen bricks. And this modern home is equally surprising.